Entry-Level Formative KWL Chart: Students list what they already know about the Cold War, what

they want to know, and at the end of the introductory lesson, what they learned. Quiz: The origins of the Cold War. Graphic Organizer: Body building Primary Source Analysis. Flashcards: Important events and people during the Cold War. Flow Map: Students will list the events of the Cold War in chronological order.

Summative

Newspaper Project: Write a newspaper depicting world events during the 1960s. Essay: Students will write an essay critically analyzing the The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss as it relates to the Cold War. Summary: KWL Chart: The KWL Chart will act as an entry-level assessment to gauge students prior knowledge regarding the Cold War. This will allow the instructor to get a plan instruction based on what the students do not already know and things that students may understand from previous classes. This can also allow the instructor to tailor the lessons to the interests of the students. Quiz: The quiz will act as a formal assessment to make sure that students have the prerequisite knowledge required about the origins of the Cold War before moving on to more complicated ideas. If students have grasped the

ideas of communism, the Marshall Plan, Containment, etc., then the instructor can move on to the next part of the unit. If not, the instructor can use the quiz to inform instruction and reteach, address knowledge gaps, or correct misconceptions. Graphic Organizer: This graphic organizer will help students analyze multiple primary source documents and record the main idea, evidence, and support for the evidence they chose. This will help students build the body paragraphs for an in-class essay and also act as a way to organize their evidence and recall each primary source. Flashcards: Students will create flashcards using a digital interactive tool. These will contain all the important people, places, events, and organizations involved with the Cold War. There is a lot of content-specific vocabulary in this unit, so students will need to be able to demonstrate that they know the meanings of the vocabulary. Flow Map: The flow map will help students organize their events in chronological order. They will use a graphic organizer to place ten events in the correct order and then they will create a Popplet to put those events in the same order and include images and other useful information to illustrate the timeline. Newspaper Project: Students will create a newspaper including stories, images, charts, and other information to illustrate the events happening around the world in the 1960s. Students will be given several topics to include and they will write their own stories to accompany each event. This is a summative assessment and will be graded using a rubric. Essay: Having read The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss, students will be expected to write a critical essay comparing the events in the Butter Battle to the events they learned about in the Cold War. Students will self-review, participate in a peer-review, revise, and submit their essay for the instructors feedback.